Video subtitling for the GNOME desktop

A new version of Gnome Subtitles is out. Changes include:

• Allow to set the gap between subtitles, to be used when inserting or splitting subtitles
• Fixed character count when editing text
• Multiple subtitle engine fixes:
  • Fixed parsing and writing (AQTitle, Karaoke Lyrics LRC, MacSUB, MPSub, Panimator, Phoenix Japanimation Society, Sofni, SubCreator 1.x, ViPlay Subtitle File)
  • Fixed output of deciseconds (SubCreator 1.x)
  • Removed extra newline in the output (MacSUB, Phoenix Japanimation Society, Panimator)
  • Fixed bug with multiple lines of text per subtitle (Sofni)
• Switched to GStreamer 1.0
• Fixed Help menu items

The following contributors were key to this release:

• Dominique Leuenberger, György Balló, Keith Madill, Paweł Brzeski

A note to packagers on updated dependencies:

• mono i18n all libraries >= 4.0 (language libraries for character codings' support)
• gstreamer >= 1.0
• gstreamer-plugins-base >= 1.0
• gstreamer-x >= 1.0 (gstreamer plugins for x11 video output)

Additional thanks:

• Santiago

Translations changed:

• Marek Cernocký (cs)
• Joe Hansen (da)
• Efstathios Iosifidis, Mel Argyropoulou, Simos Xenitellis (el)
• Daniel Mustieles (es)
• Alain Lojewski, Bruno Brouard (fr)
• Yaron Shahrabani (he)
• Gabor Kelemen (hu)
• Fran Diéguez, Leandro Regueiro (gl)
• Piotr Drag, Tomasz Salacinski (pl)
• Rafael Ferreira (pt_BR)
• Matej Urbancic (sl)
• Miroslav Nikolic (sr)
• Chao-Hsiung Liao (zh_HK, zh_TW)

Bug fixes:

• Error opening some types of previously saved files (#643389)
• Fix opening help (#671567)
• Incorrect character count in subtitle edit (#659524)
• Add tunable to set minimum gap between subtitles (#673126)
• Port to GStreamer 1.0 (#694818)
• Dialogs open as separate window (#621475)

Gnome Subtitles 1.2 has been released. This version brings the effort of multiple contributors, enhancing the application with the following features:

• Support for merging and splitting subtitle lines
• Allow to view character counts in the subtitle list and editing area
• Allow to apply a reaction delay when timing start/end on video playblack
• Video slow and fast motion options
• New shortcuts for quick timings change:
  • Increase/decrease subtitle start time: Ctrl+Plus/Minus (on the numpad)
  • Increase/decrease subtitle end time: Alt+Plus/Minus (on the numpad)
  • Shift subtitles: Shift+Plus/Minus (on the numpad)
• Automatically seek the video when subtitle times are changed, with an option to rewind it some milliseconds
• Added support for the Fab Subtitler subtitle format
• Allow to insert a new subtitle at the current video position, applying a reaction delay if set
• Other changes:
  • Translation filenames are now based on the original filename plus language
  • Added support for buggy SubRip files that use dots instead of commas
  • Fixed bug with the subtitle overlay not being updated on times change
  • Detect when selecting a video file as the subtitle file
  • Updated preferences dialog with different structure and more options
  • Fixed special characters (<,>,&,etc) not being shown in the subtitle list

Bug fixes:

• Slow and Fast Motion Option (#453469)
• Filenames for new translations (#607227)
• Video file extensions (#607228)
• Opening large files (#607229)
• File close sensitivity (#620776)
• Shift selected lines with Keyboard shortcuts (#621145)
• Makefile - copy libs to build dir (#621943)
• Show the total number of characters while editing subtitles (#625485)
• Support for FAB files (#634230)
• Remove extension from icon in .desktop file (#636766)
• Do not build modules as shared libraries (#636767)
• Crash when inserting new subtitle with no subtitles selected (#638238)
• Apply a Reaction Delay when timing subtitle start/end (#638484)
• Add support for opening buggy SubRip files (#642674)
• Insert subtitle at video position (#648461)
• Merge and split lines (#651958)

Contributors:

• Arx Cruz, Keith Madill, Michał Sawicz, Paweł Brzeski

Translations:

• Joan Duran (ca)
• Marek Černocký, Petr Kovar (cs)
• Joe Hansen, Kenneth Nielsen (da)
• Mario Blättermann (de)
• Daniel Mustieles, Francisco Serrador, Jorge González (es)
• Bruno Brouard (fr)
• Marcos Lans (gl)
• Yaron Shahrabani (he)
• Gabor Kelemen (hu)
• Claudio Arseni (it)
• António Lima (pt)
• Djavan Fagundes, Krix Apolinário, Marco de Freitas (pt_BR)
• Yuri Myasoedov (ru)
• Andrej Žnidaršič, Matej Urbančič (sl)
• Đorđe Vasiljević (sr)
• Daniel Nylander (sv)
• Yinghua Wang (zh_CN)

Additional thanks:

• A. Bhattacharya, A. Dagistanli, D. Leuenberger, Eva C., J. Hogue, V. Untz, P. Drąg, W. Lemberg, Z. Kozak

Gnome Subtitles now has a new domain name. Make sure to update your bookmarks!
http://gnomesubtitles.org

Ilya from Bombono DVD has just posted a guide recommending Gnome Subtitles for preparing sources. The main guide for creating your DVDs is available here.

Quoting DistroWatch:

MoLinux 6.2, an Ubuntu-based distribution sponsored by the Spanish regional government of Castilla-La Mancha and deployed extensively in the region's public administration offices and schools, has been released. Some of the most important features of the new version include: based on Ubuntu 10.10; new window design for the log-in screen; new icon theme (GNOME-Wine); hardware compatibility improvements; latest versions of applications included in the distributions; new applications and utilities such as JDownloader, a download manager, Gnome Subtitles, a subtitle editor, support for 7zip file compression in File Roller (...)

Ubuntu users wanting to update to the latest version while it doesn't hit the official repositories, there's a PPA made available by WebUpd8:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gnome-subtitles


I'm proud to announce the immediate availability of version 1.1, a release which features the amazing work of two important contributors: Arx Cruz and Valmir Sena. This includes:

• New feature for quickly setting times with a single button: pressing sets the start time, releasing sets the end time, then moves to the next subtitle
• Periodically backup subtitle files, configurable in the preferences
• New features for video seeking and subtitle selection:
  • Video->Loop Selection - loop the video playback to the selected subtitles
  • Video->Seek to Selection - seek the video to the selected subtitle
  • Video->Select Nearest Subtitle - select the subtitle for the video position
  • Video->Auto Select Subtitle - auto select subtitles as the video is playing
• Changes in the Timings Synchronize dialog:
  • Fixed a bug using the Synchronize All Subtitles option
  • Activating a sync point now seeks to its new time instead of the old one
• Fixed a bug drag-and-dropping files with spaces in their path
• Use ISO-8859-1 as the fallback and default encoding in the File Open list

New or updated translation credits:

• Carles Ferrando, Joan Duran (ca@valencia)
• Lucas Lommer, Marek Černocký, Petr Kovar (cs)
• Mario Blättermann (de)
• Jorge González (es)
• Bruno Brouard, Claude Paroz (fr)
• Fran Diéguez (gl)
• Yaron Shahrabani (he)
• Gabor Kelemen, Laszlo Csordas (hu)
• A S Alam (pa)
• Piotr Drąg (pl)
• António Lima (pt)
• Daniel Șerbănescu, Lucian Grijincu (ro)
• Andrej Žnidaršič (sl)
• Baris Cicek, Serkan Yılmaz (tr)
• Aron Xu (zh_CN)

Bug fixes:

• Automatically select subtitles on video playback (#453220)
• Quick subtitle timing during playback (#547984)
• Periodically backup subtitle files (#565360)
• Subtitle loop (#601195)
• Seek Subtitle->Time; Time->Subtitle with kb shortcut; Follow subs. (#605402)
• Bug in help (#612400)
• Untranslated strings (#619364)
• Crash when shifting selected subtitles (#620027)
• Synchronize timings for all subtitles (#622248)
• Crash when searching backwards (#628427)

Additional thanks:

• A. G. Luz, Carlos Troncoso, Daniel, Gabor Kelemen, Marcin Zajaczkowski

Born more than 5 years ago, the project has come a long way. Some facts:

• The project was started on 29 Jan 2005.
• Besides the current maintainer (the original author), the project has since received love from (full credits):
  • 6 developers
  • 1 graphic designer
  • 1 technical writer
  • 54 translators
  • 3 general supporters
• Its user interface is currently available in 27 languages.
• The project's source tarballs have been downloaded about 22.000 times (distribution packages should account for way more downloads but no data is available).
• The website shows an average of 230 visits/day.
• The project's source code contains about 16.300 lines of code, produced in about 1.500 commits.
• Users have reported a total of 256 bugs, of which about 40% are feature enhancements.

I'm very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Gnome Subtitles 1.0. This release is the result of all development effort carried on till now, into a stable release. Besides the stabilization effort, this release delivers the following features:

• Added drag-and-drop support for loading subtitle and video files
• Allow to set new options in the preferences:
  • Whether to save the translation when saving subtitles
  • Default and fallback character codings for opening files
  • Default subtitle format, character coding and newline type for saving files
  • Allow to remember the last used settings
• Fixed a timings synchronization issue when "Sync All Subtitles" was used
• Activating (double-clicking) a sync point in the synchronization dialog now selects the corresponding subtitle and seeks the video to its position

This release features translations added or updated by:

• Alexander Shopov, Svetoslav Stefanov (bg)
• Marek Černocký, Petr Kovar, Rinu (cs)
• Joe Hansen (da)
• Mario Blättermann (de)
• Jorge González (es)
• Antón Méixome, Lois (gl)
• Mark Krapivner (he)
• Claudio Arseni (it)
• Piotr Drąg (pl)
• António Lima (pt)
• Andrej Žnidaršič, Matej Urbančič (sl)
• Daniel Nylander (sv)

Special thanks go to the following contributors on this release:

• Arx Cruz
• Ildar Mulyukov
• Peter Alfredsen

Additional thanks go to:

• A. Luz, Federico, Frederico Camara, ΙΟΑΝΝΗΣ ΜΠΟΥΡΔΑΚΗΣ, Yann Basly

The following bugs were fixed on this release:

• Set defaultsubtitle format, character coding and newline type in preferences (#504656)
• Option to save Translation when saving Subtitles (#511167)
• The ability to manually change "from", "to" and "during" fields (#549060)
• Selecting subtitles in the Synchronize dialog (#585064)
• Ability to open files drag-dropping them onto the window (#585477)
• Use libtool to produce shared libraries (#592784)
• Title app bar shows previous srt played/viewed information (#596355)
• Crash when using video files with special characters (#608631)
• Srt files saved as Unix text (LF) (#609345)
• Window collapses the screen with a large subtitle (#610170)

Gnome Subtitles 0.9.1 has been released. This is a bugfix release which includes:

• Allow to open audio files for subtitling
• Changed the default selection type in the Timings Adjust and Shit dialogs
• Fixed crashes:
  • Opening a video with Frames mode selected
  • Opening the Preferences dialog

Translations:

• Joan Duran (ca)
• Jorge González (es)

Bug fixes:

• Subtitling of audio files (#584795)
• GS crashes when opening subtitles together with a movie (#587097)
• GS crashes on Edit->Preferences (#587100)

Thanks:

• Marcin Zajaczkowski, Yannick Warnier